Commonwealth v. Plowman’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gateway Construction Company v. Wallbaum · Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Revenue Cabinet · Commonwealth v. Harrelson · McCracken County Fiscal Court v. Graves · Commonwealth v. Montaque
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tatutes must be given a literal interpretation unless they are ambiguous and if the words are not ambiguous, no statutory construction is required.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. B.L. v. Schuhmann · Davis v. Davis“according to the plain meaning of the act and in accordance with the legislative intent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An unambiguous statute is to be applied without resort to any outside aids.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. McGill
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.